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If you are processing the RAW files in Canon Digital Photo Professional you can save your changes as a recipe and then apply the recipe quickly to other files.

To do this, first import an image; make your changes and then save settings as a recipe in the edit menu. Then any subsequent image you import just select the recipe you saved and the changes you made in settings for the original image will be applied to the current image. To apply this to a batch of images just select them and from the edit menu select past recipe from file and all the changes in the recipe will be applied to all selected images.

so I need to select the other images one by one? I have 100 images for which I have to apply the exact same settings
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RyanSep 29 '11 at 22:24

@Ryan: I have just been looking at this in DPP and there is a way of doing a batch change. Make your edits to one image then from the edit menu save the changes as a recipe. You can then select multiple images and apply the same recipe to all of them. This seems to be the way to batch edit your images. I will update the answer to reflect this.
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Paul RoundSep 30 '11 at 8:51

7) Click "Yes". Depending on how many images are selected, it could take a while as the recipe has to be added to each file's metadata.

You may also save a recipe as a file for future use. With the edited image displayed in the window click Edit->"save recipe in file..." (Alt+e v). From the box that appears navigate to the location you wish to save the file and name it.
You can later retrieve the recipe by Edit->"retrieve and past recipe from file..."
Once you have applied the recipe to one file you can then copy it and paste to all of the files as outlined above.

If you already have a recipe saved as a file, you can also apply it to one or more images selected in the main window that shows the thumbnails of images in the folder you have open. You can then copy the recipe to the clipboard, navigate to another folder of images, select other files you wish to apply it to and then paste it to the selected files.

The nice thing about DPP is the recipe doesn't actually change the image itself, it just adds the information to the RAW file's metatdata and applies it when you convert the file to JPEG or TIFF.